Envy Quotes - Page 18

• The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.

  Naveen Jain

  Opportunity, America, Mind

  FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Aug 23, 2016

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• We have more experience of movement and more capacity for it than of feeling and thought... We know much more about movement than we do about anger, love, envy or even thought. It is relatively easy to learn to recognize the quality of movement than the quality of other factors.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Philosophy, Medicine, Psychology

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• Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Queens, Revenge, Purple

  Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.120, A&C Black

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• I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.

  Ani DiFranco

  Education, Ignorance, Bliss

  Song: Adam And Eve

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• A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.

  Yeardley Smith

  Men, Needs, Helping

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• Redistribution depends on three things, amnesia,meaning you don't remember the murderous paths of these beliefs. Envy, you hate the successful in the present and used, people who
  have nothing to earn yet.

  Jedediah Bila

  Hate, Successful, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.

  Harold Geneen

  Attitude, Sarcasm, Vanity

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• I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

  Jess C Scott

  People, Darkness, Gothic

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan”, p.48, jessINK

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• The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

  Criss Jami

  Thinking, Criticism, Care

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.89, Criss Jami

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• You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Men, Grieving

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• As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves. Even our willingness to look at ourselves critically is often helpful.But, we can go too far. We can hoard responsibility and overlook the role others play. We can kick ourselves when we're down. How many times have you felt lousy about something, only to get mad at yourself for feeling lousy?

  Laurie Helgoe

  Responsibility, Worst Enemy, Play

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• If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.

  Criss Jami

  Thinking, Air, Speaks Out

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.55, Criss Jami

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• Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Simple, May, Firsts

  "Doing Well and Doing Good: The Challenge to the Christian Capitalist". Book by Richard John Neuhaus, 1992.

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• If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

  Horace

  Silence, Crow, Meat

  "Epistles", I. 17. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 690-91, 1922.

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• When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

  Edith Sitwell

  Frustration, Thinking, Stupidity

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.172, A&C Black

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• The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Spring, Sacrifice

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Crush, Flower, Age

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• The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

  Charles Dickens

  Wine, Men, Atmosphere

  Charles Dickens (1856). “Household Words”, p.504

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• There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Men, Race

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.16

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• I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.

  May Sarton

  Light, Expression, Color

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.90, Open Road Media

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• For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.

  Helen Rowland

  Kissing, Men, Average

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• Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick

  Abigail Van Buren

  Mother, Father, Dirty

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• I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you envy, the ones who seem to have destiny falling habitually into their laps. If they're anything like the fortunate people I know, they're prepared, they're always working at their craft, they're alert, they involve their friends in their work, and they tend to make others feel lucky to be around them.

  Twyla Tharp

  Fall, Good Luck, Destiny

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not develop jealousy, hatred or envy on any count.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Hatred

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• We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Hatred, Way, Difficulty

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